Screenshots

Amber Jones Eddy

These are screenshots taken during the production of my front cover for my school magazine ‘Life in the 6th form’. They show what I did step by step on Photoshop to achieve the final product.

Firstly, I uploaded my choice for the final image onto photoshop. I experimented with various features to alter the brightness, sharpness and colour of the image.

After I was happy with how the image looked, I decided to add in the basic title (with the exception of the number 6 which I planned to be a different colour) which I changed to the main

theme colour of the magazine with a darker outline to make it stand out further.

When the main words of the title were finished I added in the ‘6’. I wanted the number to slightly contrast to the letters: so I made it a slightly different colour, arranged it to be covered slightly by another letter and

added a faded effect to make it look unique compared to the rest of the text. I also made it slightly bigger.

The next thing that I did was add in a border. I placed it at the bottom of the page as it was going to have a slogan on it. I made it a colour that relates back to the colour scheme and is similar to the colour of the title.

After the border was finished I added the text which is in a similar style to the Mast Head. The words ‘Limited offer’ are capitalized to highlight the importance and relevance of the notice to

the reader.

I then added in the various taglines of the front cover in a simple font. I arranged them so that they framed the image and didn’t cover the model’s face. They also match the basic colour

scheme.

Lastly, I added in the ‘Halloween Disco’ tagline which I wanted to contrast from the rest of the magazine as it is related to a seasonal occasion and therefore wanted it to stereotypically match

Halloween. I did this by making it into a typically ‘creepy’ font and the colour orange which is highly associated with Halloween.